Public Domain Day 2022 - Over 400000 free out of copyright audio recordings for your videos

[@nickclashbcommander40]

So many sound recordings, songs and music for all of us to enjoy and the best part is that it's all free and we'll be able to do whatever with it we want!

[@nickclashbcommander40]

When I watch the ball drop in New York on TV, I'm going to take great delight in knowing what great works and treasures we'll now have access to!

[@nickclashbcommander40]

This is the second reason I like New Year's Day. Because New Year's Day is also Public Domain Day, which I like to also call Free Day!

[@barbaracabrera207]

This is cool. So many old records to listen to. Crazy. Thank you for another great video. Thx from your biggest fan!!! Have a wonderful and SAFE New Year's!!! Austin,TX USA

[@nickclashbcommander40]

I think so too! I am going to definitely sit down and listen to a lot of these once the new year begins and they become legally and freely available to all of us! Can't wait!

[@TheCreatorSynergy]

Thank you soo much for being the biggest fan of this channel!!!! Happy New Year to you and your family!!! Stay safe!

[@TheCreatorSynergy]

There are soo many great recordings, and the numbers that are coming are a bit overwhelming:) I'm still istening to Old Time Radio from late 30s and 40s, tons of quality material that is fun to listen, and by most of the younger generation never discovered. Happy New Year Nick!

[@barbaracabrera207]

@@TheCreatorSynergy I'm listening to 20s!!!

[@nickclashbcommander40]

I completely agree with you. This is going to be such a massive boost for the Public Domain just like how Winnie-The-Pooh and Bambi are going to lose their copyrights! I'm so excited!

[@bigblue6917]

Thanks for this. I have been looking at making some videos for KZbin and this would be excellent for one of the ideas I have.

[@TheCreatorSynergy]

Glad it was helpful!

[@richardsisk1770]

Thanks. Interesting 🤔

[@greatbasinprepper]

Public domain!!!!!

[@moneydose435]

Thanks a lot

[@photios4779]

Thanks and Happy Public Domain Day 2022!! I'm grateful for all the fresh PD content that has just become freely available for all of us to appreciate and use. But one important caveat is that some public domain materials remain under copyright protection in other countries. Someone who wants to use one of these over 400,000 newly PD recordings in a KZbin video might find it copyright claimed or blocked in some countries outside the U.S. where it hasn't yet entered the PD.

[@TheCreatorSynergy]

Yes, that's true, That's why I've said Public Domain in US. KZbin is a different beast, and they interpreet the Public Domain in a different way, or not at all. I use to had a channel where, I was publishing audiobooks from Public Domain, long story short, they have removed all the content, even though it was in Public Domain, and I've supplied the source links, graphics, and all the evidence. It didn't matter to them. So even that the content is in all countries in Public Domain, some sites like for ex. KZbin, will look on it in their own way (at least their AI).

[@Kandhaqprotector]

The benefits of the public domain are wildly over exaggerated and are beneficial only in the short term not the long term. In the next 30-40 years, these characters your talking about will lose most of their monetary value due to over inflation of the market. It’s a simple economic principle, excess supply of a good leads to a drop in price thus suppliers become less motivated to supply that good decreasing the output this decreasing demand and making that good worthless. Nothing in excess is good. When a character becomes to come on it loses cultural and monetary value. It leaves a dent on the already sunken box office. Instead of getting 1 billion dollar grossing spider man movies. Your gonna be getting 500 million dollar spider man movies.

[@photios4779]

​@@Kandhaqprotector I strongly disagree that "the benefits of the public domain are wildly over exaggerated." My main interest in the public domain involves things like historical photos, music, books and other writings - the kind of things that are mostly long out of print and would be "orphan works" and virtually inaccessible if they hadn't entered the public domain and therefore could not be made freely available online for the general public so that our collective past can be better appreciated and preserved. This video and my comment are about historical (pre-1923) sound recordings that have just entered the U.S. public domain for the first time, so I don't know why you said "these characters your talking about" because I'm literally just talking about music, not characters. By the way, the MAJOR threat to big media corporations like Disney or Warner Bros. isn't the public domain, but rather the "democratization" of the tools needed to successfully compete with them. It will soon be possible for a small indie startup on a shoestring budget to use free software tools like Blender to create a superhero movie featuring original characters that is every bit as engaging and compelling as anything in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. I'm sure Disney dreads the day when free open source tools reach the level of sophistication where that becomes possible. This isn't necessarily a bad thing because it means that the pie is divided in many more ways and small players get a cut too, instead of bigger slices of the pie only going to a small number of big media corporations, but I do get your point that too much supply can also have negative consequences. This has already happened in stock photography where the easy availability of high quality digital cameras means that anyone can take great shots and cheaply license them to a stock photography site, which makes it more difficult for professional photographers to earn a living solely by snapping photos because the available supply has grown dramatically in the last 20 years, much faster than the growth in demand. But my point is that this has nothing to do with the public domain. You also have to remember that even as favorite characters like Winnie-the-Pooh gradually enter the public domain, the trademarks corporations like Disney own on them will not expire. Disney literally owns trademarks on Winnie-the-Pooh (which I looked up in a trademark registration database) that include "motion picture films in the nature of adventure and comedy" and "computer game programs and computer software, featuring children's educational software, music and stories." This will severely limit what Disney's rivals can do with this character now that the first A.A. Milne story featuring Winnie is now public domain. This is a very small issue beside the larger one of increasingly easy access to the production tools needed to compete with big media which in time will shake things up far more than the public domain ever will.

[@Kandhaqprotector]

@@photios4779 I agree with only a few of the points that you’ve expressed here. I agree that the public domain should be respected so that orphan works that are never used become usable. But the affects of the public domain are overrated. when something loses its copyright. It also loses its cultural and economical value. Most of the billion dollars IPs in the world are not public domain. They are mostly privately owned. Public Domain decreases the profitability of characters.

[@Kandhaqprotector]

@@photios4779Public Domain isn’t just a major threat to Big Media giants like Warner and Disney. It’s a threat to the US entertainment industry and kind of Western Culture. Public Domain will make Hollywood the new Bollywood because it’ll inflate the market with a lot of crap,good and medicore adaptations of public domain works. The value of the The US’s dominance in the film industry will wane because of the public domain. That is because cultural and monetary value of the country’s most valuable IPs will depreciate overtime as more and more of their works become public domain. After the first five years of works featuring popular characters slipping into the public domain. It may seem great but in the distant future when something becomes too common. People lose interest. People get tired of producing and supplying that said thing. The Public will drain the value of characters owned by massive media conglomerates. Whilst it may be beneficial to curb corporate power, it is also bad to curb corporate power because big corporations yield a lot of power, their financial status affects the lives of thousands and thousands of people. Less profits for the big companies mean decrease in salaries,less job opportunities,less domestic and foreign investment from those companies which affects both the US and global economy. Public Domain isn’t going to save shit. That’ll just make America’s film industry like India.

[@newmanargom9762]

Excuse me sir, but I need to ask. How did you make the search engine understand exactly what you wanted, do you know its language?

[@DreamAfterhours]

This is a very helpful video. Just to be sure, so the two sites you gave us in the description, we can use all the oldies music from 1900 to 1922 without getting Copyrigt Claim from KZbin?

[@TheCreatorSynergy]

In theory, Yes. In practice, any site that you are uploading Public Domain works might give you a Copyright strike, and especially KZbin. Although if you set that the video can be viewed only in the Countries where the Copyright of the work expired you should be able to monetize it in that particular Country. I've had a YT channel back in 2015, where I was publishing Copyright Free/Public Domain audiobooks read by volunteers, and I was getting Copyright strikes, as far as I remember all the strikes came from Europe, and not from States, however after about 18 months, my channel was closed, due to too many strikes, even though I have asnwered all of the strikes, with links to the materials, and other statements, and all of them were accepted and positively reviewed, and the strikes were cancelled by the other party and KZbin themselves, all the content on my channel was deleted by YT.

[@DreamAfterhours]

@@TheCreatorSynergy Hmm, that's actually hard work to know about countries where the rights have expired. Copyrigt Claim is a common occurrence, and it freaks me out. Some countries support "Public Domain" and some do not. I think that every country should adopt it if a certain number of years have passed. KZbin shouldn't really cause problems when it comes to "Public Domain" music. I've seen a few channels that post oldies compilations without problems, I even think they're monetized. Especially the "Nemo's Dreamscapes" channel, what archive does the owner of that channel have? I really wanted to do at least one or two compilations with oldies songs, but now I don't know what to do because we are not in a position to have a written argument to defend against a Copyrigt Claim or at worst a "Copyrigt Strike". It's a very sad story what happened to your channel, yet each of us invests a large part of our time, effort, hours and hours of work.

[@nickclashbcommander40]

Is it possible that after the new year begins tonight and all these recordings enter the Public Domain, that you can post and upload any of them online? That would help me a lot as I am quite interested in downloading them once we can all legally do so!

[@TheCreatorSynergy]

You'll be able to download them directly from the sites I've mentioned in the video. Actually, you can download them already from Archive.org, the ones from National Jukebox, not yet, but that will change in January 2022.

[@nickclashbcommander40]

@@TheCreatorSynergy Okay. Cool! Thanks!

[@edwinsandra5904]

Fun fact whinnie the Pooh is now public domain

[@TheCreatorSynergy]

Yes, the original edition published in US in 1926. And Bambi too:)

[@Iamwolf134]

Both names are recognizable.

[@Iamwolf134]

Almost as if Disney has all but given up on copyright... although it's not exactly a given.

[@TheCreatorSynergy]

They might have given up on copyright (at least on these two), but the trademarks could still be on.

[@Iamwolf134]

@@TheCreatorSynergy Agreed.